HTML 5 <style> Tag

The HTML <style> tag is used for declaring style sheets within your HTML document.

Each HTML document can contain multiple <style> tags.

In HTML 5, the <style> tag can be used within the <body> element (or its child elements) as long as the scoped attribute is used. If the scoped attribute is not used, each <style> tag must be located between the <head> tags (or a <noscript> element that is a child of a <head> element).

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Attributes

HTML tags can contain one or more attributes. Attributes are added to a tag to provide the browser with more information about how the tag should appear or behave. Attributes consist of a name and a value separated by an equals (=) sign, with the value surrounded by double quotes. Here's an example, style="color:black;".

There are 3 kinds of attributes that you can add to your HTML tags: Element-specific, global, and event handler content attributes.

The attributes that you can add to this tag are listed below.

Element-Specific Attributes

The following table shows the attributes that are specific to this tag/element.

Attribute

Description

type

Specifies the style sheet language as a content-type (MIME type).

media

Specifies the device that the styles apply to. Must be a valid media query.

Possible values:

all

braille

print

projection

screen

speech

scoped

Specifies that the styles only apply to this element's parent element and that element's child elements. If this attribute is not used, styles will be applied to the whole document.

Note that if the <style> tag is being used outside of the document <head>, it must have the scoped attribute.

Event Handler Content Attributes

Event handler content attributes enable you to invoke a script from within your HTML. The script is invoked when a certain "event" occurs. Each event handler content attribute deals with a different event.